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« Reply #7530 on: January 19, 2010, 12:14:18 PM »

You sure made a monkey out of that surly schmuck in the store, or should that be an o-ring utang 
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« Reply #7531 on: January 19, 2010, 12:23:11 PM »

I remove the C clip using a pair of special C clip pliers from my big fancy tool kit.

I bought this tool kit years ago. I got a huge discount because the box had been slightly damaged in the fall.

No one knows I have these tools, so no one asks to borrow them. If anyone asks, you know nothing.



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I think we've now discovered the main reason for this plumbing digression, to show off that lovely box of tools.




Did it fall or was it pushed?!
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« Reply #7532 on: January 19, 2010, 12:30:39 PM »

I remove the C clip using a pair of special C clip pliers from my big fancy tool kit.

I bought this tool kit years ago. I got a huge discount because the box had been slightly damaged in the fall.

No one knows I have these tools, so no one asks to borrow them. If anyone asks, you know nothing.



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I think we've now discovered the main reason for this plumbing digression, to show off that lovely box of tools.




Did it fall or was it pushed?!

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A valid point sir.  Accidents do tend to happen in the vicinity of Tom....allegedly.
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« Reply #7533 on: January 19, 2010, 12:34:57 PM »

tonight 9pm bbc2 or iplayer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8466493.stm
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« Reply #7534 on: January 19, 2010, 01:17:40 PM »

Has anyone considered what will happen to the accident prone tap that lost it's o ring?

First we have to consider the poor sod who buys a brand new tap without an o ring?

This could be a plumber who fits it and then has to spend time trying to figure out why it leaks.

When he finds out he takes it back to the shop who give him a new one which he goes back and fits. He may also quite rightly claim for his loss of time.

The shop seething at their new found reputation for supplying faulty goods then have to go through the hassle of changing it with the supplier/manufacturer. This will involve a few phone calls and then packing and sending it off. No doubt there will be some bad feeling between shop and supplier regarding the faulty taps.

The supplier then takes the tap apart and fits a new o ring, re-packages it and sends it back.

Total cost in terms of reputation or goodwill - Obviously can't be calculated

Total cost in time of Tom's o ring - I'd guess about £120

Unless of course someone in the chain decides it's not worth the cost of repairing in which case it will just become landfill.

All for what is probably a 0.1p piece of rubber.

Scary.
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« Reply #7535 on: January 19, 2010, 01:26:21 PM »

Or you could take the Flanders and Swann view...


The Gas Man Cometh.

'Twas on a Monday morning the gas man came to call.
The gas tap wouldn't turn - I wasn't getting gas at all.
He tore out all the skirting boards to try and find the main
And I had to call a carpenter to put them back again.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Tuesday morning the carpenter came round.
He hammered and he chiselled and he said:
"Look what I've found: your joists are full of dry rot
But I'll put them all to rights".
Then he nailed right through a cable and out went all the lights!

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Wednesday morning the electrician came.
He called me Mr. Sanderson, which isn't quite the name.
He couldn't reach the fuse box without standing on the bin
And his foot went through a window so I called the glazier in.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Thursday morning the glazier came round
With his blow torch and his putty and his merry glazier's song.
He put another pane in - it took no time at all
But I had to get a painter in to come and paint the wall.

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

'Twas on a Friday morning the painter made a start.
With undercoats and overcoats he painted every part:
Every nook and every cranny - but I found when he was gone
He'd painted over the gas tap and I couldn't turn it on!

Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.

On Saturday and Sunday they do no work at all;
So 'twas on a Monday morning that the gasman came to call...
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« Reply #7536 on: January 19, 2010, 01:31:47 PM »

I remove the C clip using a pair of special C clip pliers from my big fancy tool kit.

I bought this tool kit years ago. I got a huge discount because the box had been slightly damaged in the fall.

No one knows I have these tools, so no one asks to borrow them. If anyone asks, you know nothing.



 Click to see full-size image.


I think we've now discovered the main reason for this plumbing digression, to show off that lovely box of tools.




Did it fall or was it pushed?!


I don't know what you mean. I merely bought some tools that were in a box that had been damaged in the Autumn.

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« Reply #7537 on: January 19, 2010, 02:09:06 PM »


That looks right up my street.

Thanks Rich.
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« Reply #7538 on: January 19, 2010, 02:37:35 PM »

Great reading - and referring to the Flanders and Swann song - did you have to replace the bathroom mat you had placed all your dissembled pieces on lol!
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« Reply #7539 on: January 19, 2010, 02:42:19 PM »

i did a similar thing once with a roller blind. We had somehow managed to lose the end bracket that goes into the ceiling/wall and i couldnt get one anywhere.
I had no intention of buying a new blind just for the sake of a little piecre of metal, so off the shop we went. spent ages looking at the lovely roller blinds in the shop, all in long pespex rectangular tubes, no easy access to the elusive brackets. So i picked what looked a suitable one and ask the assistant what length it was

'180cm, it says on the box'
'aye, but it is exact -if its even 1/2 cm too long it wont fit'
'dunno'
'can i take it out the box and measure it'
'erm, ok'
'can you get me a tape measure?'
'aye ok'

so off she trots to the desk as i fumble with the packaging, and manage to free one of the brackets which goes straight in my pocket. she comes back i pretend to measure it, and decide its not for us, as we go to leave the shop. we turn to walk away and i hear

'excuse me'
(my heart stops for a second. i turn to face my fate to be labelled a thief and end up with my picture in the hamilton advertiser)
'you've still got my inch tape'

phew....

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« Reply #7540 on: January 19, 2010, 02:56:55 PM »

Great reading - and referring to the Flanders and Swann song - did you have to replace the bathroom mat you had placed all your dissembled pieces on lol!


Not until I trod on an open tube of this I didn't.


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« Reply #7541 on: January 19, 2010, 03:02:41 PM »


(my heart stops for a second. i turn to face my fate to be labelled a thief and end up with my picture in the hamilton advertiser)




Lmao.
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« Reply #7542 on: January 19, 2010, 03:04:45 PM »


(my heart stops for a second. i turn to face my fate to be labelled a thief and end up with my picture in the hamilton advertiser)




Lmao.

That is a most un-Tom like expression Tom.

I prefer you when you are you.

You never see me trying to be like the kidz, innit?
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« Reply #7543 on: January 19, 2010, 03:08:42 PM »


(my heart stops for a second. i turn to face my fate to be labelled a thief and end up with my picture in the hamilton advertiser)




Lmao.

That is a most un-Tom like expression Tom.

I prefer you when you are you.

You never see me trying to be like the kidz, innit?

You wear that same white shirt every single time I see you. Can't get more adolescent than that.
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« Reply #7544 on: January 19, 2010, 03:10:25 PM »

'excuse me'
(my heart stops for a second. i turn to face my fate to be labelled a thief and end up with my picture in the hamilton advertiser)
'you've still got my inch tape'

You should have just walked on, saying "Well now it's my half-inched tape"
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